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The confirmation of pre-hispanic R1b gives credit to the theories pointing to the Phoenicians as the possible cause of the colonization of the islands, as they would have carried there slaves from Mauritania and Tartessos to profit the natural resources of the island. The guanches displayed a diverse culture by using a lybico-berber alphabet (but some Latin and Punic inscriptions have been found there), their language was related to Amazigh, mummification was known, the people did sacrifices of children in tophets √† la Punique, they were herders (goats and sheeps)... and the human presence in the islands coincides with the Phoenician colonization of North Africa and South Spain, and with the age of their explorations (Hanno, Hamilco).

Speaking about physical traits, the Guanches of North Tenerife were white and with blond women.

"What I've seen so far after my entire career chasing Indoeuropeans is that our solutions look tissue thin and our problems still look monumental" J.P.Mallory

"The ultimate homeland of the group [PIE] that also spread Anatolian languages is less clear." D. Reich

Today, archaeological and ethnographic studies have led most scholars to accept the view that the pre-colonial population of the Canaries shared common origins with North AfricanBerber tribes from the Atlas Mountains region who began to arrive in the Canaries by sea around 1000 BCE or earlier. However, there is no archaeological or historical evidence to prove that either the Berber tribes of the Atlas Mountains or the Canarian pre-colonial population had knowledge or made use of navigation techniques.[4] The peak of Tenerife is visible from the African coast on the very clearest of days, but the currents around the islands tend to lead the boats southwest and west, past the archipelago and into the Atlantic Ocean.

Most scholars would now agree that the earliest reliable dates related to permanent human occupation can be traced back to about 1000 BCE, but different absolute dating technologies such as carbon-14 and thermoluminescence have provided variable results. Inadequate methodologies and an insufficient number of absolute datings carried out throughout the archipelago have yielded inconsistencies and information gaps.

Studies of precolonial Canarian society illustrate both agricultural and pastoral ways of life in the Canaries

The confirmation of pre-hispanic R1b gives credit to the theories pointing to the Phoenicians as the possible cause of the colonization of the islands, as they would have carried there slaves from Mauritania and Tartessos to profit the natural resources of the island. The guanches displayed a diverse culture by using a lybico-berber alphabet (but some Latin and Punic inscriptions have been found there), their language was related to Amazigh, mummification was known, the people did sacrifices of children in tophets √† la Punique, they were herders (goats and sheeps)... and the human presence in the islands coincides with the Phoenician colonization of North Africa and South Spain, and with the age of their explorations (Hanno, Hamilco).

Speaking about physical traits, the Guanches of North Tenerife were white and with blond women.

Interesting... But I thought that, if the 7 R-M269 people were from Iberia, wouldn't they display a more Iberian-like autosomal profile?

Not so easy. Carthaginians killed whichever people tried to go beyond the Hercules Pillars. IIRC Greeks were not conscious of such islands and it was necessary to crash the Carthaginian empire to allow Romans some mild knowledge about the Fortunates.

Not so easy. Carthaginians killed whichever people tried to go beyond the Hercules Pillars. IIRC Greeks were not conscious of such islands and it was necessary to crash the Carthaginian empire to allow Romans some mild knowledge about the Fortunates.

Sure, but Carthaginians didn't exist anymore in the X century A.D. or also in the I century A.D. After the fall of Carthago, then many people could reach the archipelago... think about the great number of pirates in the Mediterranean and the effort the Romans did to erase that problem and, of course, the rebirth of the piracy after the fall of the Roman Empire.

After the fall of the Roman Empire there are no more direct references to the islands till the Genoese Lanceloto Malocello, who reached Lanzarote in 1312; from there on many European piratical raids and actions to conquer the islands were taken; in fact in the Catalan Atlas of 1375 the islands appear with their actual names... The Hispanic Moors had not a better knowledge before, the geographer Al Idriss explains that some sailors from Lisbone departed in the XII century to explore the Ocean, after many weeks sailing they found filthy waters and decided to come back... but the winds delivered them into an unkown peopled island; the people there captured the sailors and with the eyes bandaged they were left in a beach of Morocco after sailing some three days.

After the fall of the Roman Empire there are no more direct references to the islands till the Genoese Lanceloto Malocello, who reached Lanzarote in 1312; from there on many European piratical raids and actions to conquer the islands were taken; in fact in the Catalan Atlas of 1375 the islands appear with their actual names... The Hispanic Moors had not a better knowledge before, the geographer Al Idriss explains that some sailors from Lisbone departed in the XII century to explore the Ocean, after many weeks sailing they found filthy waters and decided to come back... but the winds delivered them into an unkown peopled island; the people there captured the sailors and with the eyes bandaged they were left in a beach of Morocco after sailing some three days.

Probably... we don't know: many islands were used as pieds-ŗ-terre by pirates in centuries... many of these weren't know by the official istitutions.